# Head of Security at Exa

- Company: Exa
- What the company does: Search API for AI agents that need real-time web data, deep research, and structured content from one endpoint. Try our API for free. Backed by Lightspeed, Y Combinator and a16z.
- Company website: https://exa.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $250K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-16
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/exa/37599c13-47f8-40d7-b37f-9fc9e5329134
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/exa-head-of-security/

## About the role

You have built or led security at a technically ambitious, rapidly growing infrastructure, AI, developer-platform, cloud, or enterprise-software company. You have operated with company-wide accountability for security—not merely responsibility for an individual security discipline.

## What they're looking for

- You have built or led security at a technically ambitious, rapidly growing infrastructure, AI, developer-platform, cloud, or enterprise-software company
- You have operated with company-wide accountability for security—not merely responsibility for an individual security discipline
- You combine executive judgment with deep technical credibility. You can move comfortably between company strategy, business risk, system architecture, incident investigation, and implementation details
- You approach unfamiliar problems with the mindset of both a builder and an attacker, and you are energized by security challenges for which no established playbook exists

Tags: Engineering